Serum Prohepcidin Levels Are Lower in Patients with Atrophic Gastritis by Hyung-Keun Kim, Eun-Chul Jang, Ju-Ok Yeom, Sun-Young Kim, Hyunjung Cho, Sung Soo Kim, Hiun-Suk Chae, Young-Seok Cho

“…Further investigations with a larger number of patients are necessary to substantiate this point.…”
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Intentional saccadic eye movements in patients with vestibular migraine by Pan Gu, Jing Feng, Lipeng Cai, Huimin Fan, Hailing Wang, Xiaokun Geng, Yuchuan Ding

“…This study aims to establish whether there are abnormalities in intentional saccadic eye movements in patients with VM. Subjects and Methods: This is a retrospective study involving two groups of patients, including 39 patients in the VM group and 38 patients in the control group. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Transfusion of Patients in Critical Condition. by Rafael Alejandro Gómez Baute, Diosdania Alfonso Falcón, Liermis Dita Salabert, Luciano Núñez Almoguea.

“…Clinical Practice Guidelines for Transfusion of Patients in Critical Condition. We stress transfusion criteria (blood cells, platelets, granulocyte concentrations, plasma and cryoprecipitate), doses, diagnosis and treatment of post-transfusion reactions. …”
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Perception of Iraqi Orthodontists and Patients toward Accelerated Orthodontics by Ali M. Al-Attar, Samher Al-Shaham, Mushriq Abid

“…The willingness for additional techniques and procedures was rated in the following order: customized appliances: 50.8% orthodontists and 38.4% patients, followed by intraoral vibrating devices: 49.2% orthodontists and 38.1% patients, piezocision: 10.2% orthodontists and 8.2% patients, and corticotomies: 8.1% orthodontists and 5.9% patients. …”
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Salivary Antioxidant Profile in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Periodontitis by Stefan I. Sredojevic, Slavica Pavlov Dolijanovic, Ivan Dozic, Jovana Kuzmanovic Pficer, Zoran Aleksic, Natasa S. Nikolic-Jakoba

“…The aim of the present study was to compare periodontal status and antioxidant profile in unstimulated saliva of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients with periodontitis and systemically healthy periodontitis patients. …”
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Comparison of Efficacy of Duloxetine Versus Amitriptyline in Fibromyalgia Patients by Saira Tahir, Obaid ur Rehman, Aliena Badshah, Durkho Atif, Muhammad Muddasser Khan Panezai, Alam Zeb

“…They were erratically assigned into two groups. Group A patients were given Duloxetine, while group B patients were given Amitriptyline for 12 weeks with main outcome of change in WPI and SSS scores three months after the therapy. …”
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Pacemaker Placement in Patients with Stroke-Mediated Autonomic Dysregulation by Ali A. Alsaad, Christopher O. Austin, Maisha T. Robinson, Michael B. Phillips

“…Lateral medullary syndrome is often missed as the cause of autonomic dysregulation in patients with recent brain stem stroke. Due to the location of the baroreceptor regulatory center in the lateral medulla oblongata, patients with LMS occasionally have autonomic dysregulation-associated clinical manifestations. …”
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Tocilizumab, an Exploratory Treatment for Severe COVID-19 Patients by Yong Wang, Yongfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhou

“…One of them was moderately ill, 8 were seriously ill, and 4 were critically ill. Eleven patients received TCZ administration once, while the other 2 patients received it twice. …”
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Psychologic Resilience and Related Factors in the Euthymic Bipolar Patients by Ersin Uygun, Aylin Koseoglu, Suat Kucukgoncu, Sahap N. Erkoc

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Cardiovascular Complications in CKD Patients: Role of Oxidative Stress by Elvira O. Gosmanova, Ngoc-Anh Le

“…Starting with the early stages, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience higher burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). …”
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Social Cognition in Patients with Early-Onset Parkinson’s Disease by Ana Natalia Seubert-Ravelo, Ma Guillermina Yáñez-Téllez, María Lizbeth Lazo-Barriga, Alejandra Calderón Vallejo, Carlos Eduardo Martínez-Cortés, Adela Hernández-Galván

“…The main objective of this work was to compare SC ability across four domains: emotional processing, social reasoning, ToM, and decision-making between patients with EOPD and healthy controls. Twenty-five nondemented patients with EOPD and 25 controls matched for sex, age, and educational level were enrolled. …”
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The Effect of Propofol on Chronic Headaches in Patients Undergoing Endoscopy by David Giampetro, Victor Ruiz-Velasco, Ashlee Pruett, Matthew Wicklund, Robert Knipe

“…This study determined acute and long-term effects of propofol administration in patients with severe headaches undergoing endoscopic procedures. …”
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Cardiovascular Complications During Delivery Hospitalization in Patients With Psoriasis by Ankit Agrawal, MD, Sharmeen Sorathia, MD, Umesh Bhagat, MD, Salman Zahid, MD, Aro Daniela Arockiam, MD, Aqieda Bayat, MD, Ahmad Safdar, MD, Akiva Rosenzveig, MD, Muhammad Majid, MD, Sanya Chandna, MD, Rahul Gupta, MD, Brittany Weber, MD, PhD, Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS

“…Results: A total of 37,482,206 weighted delivery hospitalizations in women ≥18 years were identified; of which, 23,588 patients had psoriasis. Pregnant patients with psoriasis had a higher incidence of complications during delivery, including preeclampsia/eclampsia, acute kidney injury, pulmonary edema, cardiac arrhythmias, and venous thromboembolism compared to those without psoriasis. …”
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Controlled inspiratory flow exercises in patients with respiratory pathologies by Jesús Sánchez Lozano, Sandra Martínez Pizarro

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Therapeutic Effects of Yoga in Reducing Stress in Hypertensive Patients by Evelyn Carolina Betancourt Rubio, Walter Alberto Vayas Valdiviezo, Daniela Abigail Cobo Álvarez

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> yoga therapy showed positive results in reducing stress in patients with high blood pressure. Yoga should be considered as an effective complementary therapy to relieve stress in patients with high blood pressure, with potential to improve the quality of life of patients…”
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From Multimorbidity to Network Medicine in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases by Winston Gilcrease, Luca Manfredi, Savino Sciascia, Fulvio Ricceri

“…This approach, while valuable, often leads to fragmented care focused on individual diseases rather than the patient as a whole. Network medicine, on the other hand, offers a more integrated perspective. …”
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Cytokines and Metabolic Patterns in Pediatric Patients with Critical Illness by George Briassoulis, Shekhar Venkataraman, Ann Thompson

“…The aim of this prospective study was to determine whether the metabolic response to stress is related to the inflammatory interleukin-6 (IL-6), 10 (IL-10), and other stress mediators' responses and to assess their relationships with different feeding patterns, nutritional markers, the severity of illness as assessed by the Multiple Organ System Failure (MOSF), the Pediatric Risk of Mortality Score (PRISM), systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and mortality in critically ill children. Patients were classified as hypermetabolic, normometabolic, and hypometabolic when the measured resting energy expenditures (REE) were >110%, 90–110% and, <90% of the predicted basal metabolic rate, respectively. …”
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Bisphophonates in CKD Patients with Low Bone Mineral Density by Wen-Chih Liu, Jen-Fen Yen, Cheng-Lin Lang, Ming-Tso Yan, Kuo-Cheng Lu

“…Patients with chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) have a high risk of bone fracture because of low bone mineral density and poor bone quality. …”
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The value of thrombus markers applied in patients with respiratory failure by Yingqun Chen, Zihan Yin, Junshi Wang, Cunliang Yan, Xuwei Lin, Lei Huang

“…Meanwhile, patients were also classified into thrombus (n = 14) and non-thrombus (n = 76) groups based on the presence of thrombus. …”
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Noninvasive Evaluation of Liver Function in Morbidly Obese Patients by Patrick H. Alizai, Isabella Lurje, Andreas Kroh, Sophia Schmitz, Tom Luedde, Julia Andruszkow, Ulf P. Neumann, Florian Ulmer

“…More than half of the obese patients develop nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which may further progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. …”
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